Example sentences of "[noun] coming [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had one or two er black lads coming in the other end of the building , saying , We know they 've come down here to complain about us , you know , Do n't you listen to them , but where else are we supposed to go ? |
| 2 | The money was in large part raised through sponsorship by local firms and banks , as is the tradition in Italy , with additional funds coming from the Italian regional and national governments . |
| 3 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 4 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 5 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 6 | Yet , the unambitious satiric intentions are fulfilled , the most successful sequences coming in the first fifteen minutes . |
| 7 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 8 | Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor . |
| 9 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 10 | We were alone on deck , though not the only ones awake for I could hear Rickie and Ellen 's voices coming from the open skylight of the main saloon . |
| 11 | Male ‘ sex passion ’ was either the result of stimulation from external sensations , or of involuntary influences coming from the sexual organs themselves . |
| 12 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 13 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 15 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 16 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 17 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 18 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 19 | Lorry driver Mr Wynne , 47 , was woken by screams coming from the semi-detached house next door . |
| 20 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 21 | The country 's trade deficit was offset , in part , by the bulk of imports coming from the socialist bloc so that " hard " foreign exchange was not used . |
| 22 | And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste . |
| 23 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 25 | Finance was on a film-by-film basis for the most part , with assistance coming from the new National Film Finance Corporation . |
| 26 | As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak . |
| 27 | In 26 matches under Taylor , England have managed just 35 goals , their best return coming in the 4–2 win over Malaysia . |
| 28 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 29 | However , the political system is " open " and there is nothing to prevent any issue coming onto the governmental agenda for action and decision if an interest group seeks to put it there . |
| 30 | There were few headlights coming in the opposite direction beyond the barrier , and few travelling in his direction . |